Just In: Abia’s Prof Obioma Emerges NECO Registrar In Buhari’s New Appointment

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President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Professor Godswill Obioma as the new Registrar and Chief Executive Officer for the National Examinations Council (NECO).

The appointment was approved in a letter dated 15th May 2020 with Reference No: FME/PS/396/C1/1/134 and signed by the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu. The letter stated that the appointment which is for an initial tenure of five years takes effect from 14th May 2020.

In a statement signed by the Head of Information and Public Relations Division, Azeez Sani, the Registrar officially took over the affairs of the Council from the former Acting Registrar, Mallam Abubakar Gana on Friday, 22nd May 2020 at the Council’s headquarters in Minna.

The new NECO Registrar is a Professor of Education Measurement and Evaluation and was a former Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Educational Research and Development Council.

Until his appointment as Registrar/CE of NECO, Prof. Obioma was the Ebonyi State Resident Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission.

Prof Obioma hails from Bende, Abia State and was appointed in 1991 as Professor of Mathematics Education and Evaluation, University of Jos.

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